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Disabilities: Professionals get insight into safety

Young people with learning difficulties and disabilities in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have presented ideas to children's professionals on what young people need to feel safe.

The Particip8 Action Team asked young people in schools and colleges in the local authorities what needed to be done to make things safer for them.

Ideas presented at the Feeling Safe Big Meeting included more police on the streets to help prevent bullying and more street lighting.

Anne-Marie Waterston, equalities officer for the Open Out (Hate Crime) Scheme, said: "The day provided insights into the experiences and perceptions of crime among young people."

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